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THE CIIEMAWA AMERICAN
Three cheers for 1906! Farewell 1905!
Cbe Chemawa American
Published WeeKly at the United
States Indian Training ScHool.
STAFF
Editor-in-chief Fortunato Jayme, '06
typos
Robert Cameron
Webster Hudson John McCush
Louie John Charlie Harris
Gus Bowechop Fidel Quimpo
Calvin Darnell
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The 'Old Year and the New
The clocks were on the stroke of twelve,
The moon was bright and high;
A footstep broke the frozen crust,
A shadow passed me by.
I-saw a veteran, lame and old,
Whose march was almost done,
The battered knapsack on his back
Was empty, like his gun.
The silver chimes began to ring,
I heard a bugle blow,
A dashing soldier, young and fair,
Came riding o'er the snow
The frost was on his cloak of blue
And on his yellow plume,
And on his sword he bore a rose
A red, red rose in bloom.
He halted where the aged man
Had fallen in the snows,
And icy winds had made for him
A bed of white repose.
He set the bugle to his lips,
The notes of "taps" he blew,
And then I knew that I beheld
The old year and the new.
Minnie Irvin in Leslie's Weekly.
With the beginning of the year 1906,
the total enrollment of Chemawa is 500.
- The hardest thing of all labors is
studying, but its results are priceless. It
gives life comfort and happiness.
Now is the time to carry into effect
new resolutions. If we can, let us
change the bad old habits into good new
ones. We know it is hard to break up
all at once the old ways, but 365 days is
quite a long time, and will give us
enough opportunities to banish them
from our lives all our bad habits if we
are sincere in our desire to reform.
"He is twice a thief who steals an
other's time." Boys and girls should
remember this when they prevent an
other from studying. If you don't want
to learn your lessons, it is no sign that
'everybody is like you. There are boys
in this school who would study a great
deal more in their rooms if they were -not
inflected with visitors who drop in
for a friendly chat before going to bed,
and before they realize it the time has
been filtered away. Take care of the
minutes, and the hours will take care of
themselves.
The Southern Pacific are spending a
great deal of money in improvements of
its railroad system in Oregon. An addi
tional appropriation of $4,160,000.00 has
been made by the executive board of the
Harriman system for new roads in Ore
gon. The location, mileage and general
plan, of which have not been announced.
This makes a total of $24,000,000.00,
whbh the Harriman lines will spend in
Oregon for th? years 1905 and 1906'.